Stoke Newington. "_Preached from a Pulpit rather than a Tub_" (Vol. v., p. 29.) is from the conclusions of _Religio Clerici; a Churchman's First Epistle_, 3rd edition, Murray, 1819. The author thus dictates his own epitaph:-- "This be my record: Sober, not austere, A Churchman, honest to his Church, lies here; Content to tread where wiser feet had trod, He loved established modes of serving God; Preached from a pulpit rather than a tub, And gave no guinea to a Bible Club." B. R. I. _Olivarius_ (Vol. v., p. 60.).--CLERICUS D. may be informed that the work of _Petrus Joannes Olivarius de prophetiâ_; _Basilea_, 1543, is in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. TYRO. Dublin. _Slavery in Scotland_ (Vol. v., p. 29.).--To the question of E. F. L., as to what time the custom of mitigating the punishment of condemned Scottish criminals to perpetual servitude was done away with, I cannot at present give a definite answer; but perhaps the following curious extract from the _Decisions_ of Fountainhall may be interesting to enquirers on this subject:-- "Reid, the _Mountebank_, pursues Scot of Harden and his Lady, for stealing away from him a little Girl, called the _Tumbling Lassie_, that danced upon his stage; and he claimed damages, and produced a contract, whereby he _bought her from her mother_, for £30 Scots. But _we have no Slaves in Scotland_, and mothers cannot sell their bairns; and physicians attested the employment of tumbling would kill her; and her joints were now grown stiff, and she declined to return; though she was at least a 'prentice, and so could not run away from her master; yet some cited Moses's Law, that if a servant shelter himself with thee, against his master's cruelty, thou shalt surely not deliver him up. The lords, _renitente cancellario_, assoilzied Harden, on the 27th January (1687)."--Vol. i. p. 439. R. S. F. Perth. _Cibber's Lives of the Poets_ (Vol. v., pp. 25., 116.).--P. T. says that "he has not Croker's _last_ edition of Boswell's _Life of Johnson_," to which MR. CROSSLEY had referred him as to Shiells' share in Cibber's _Lives_. He has printed "last" in Italics; but I see reason to suspect that he has not seen _any_ of Mr. Croker's editions, nor even Boswell's own; for the MS. note which he quotes from a fly-leaf of his (P. T.'s) copy of the _Lives of the Poets_, is nothing but a verbal repetition of what Boswell had stated on Dr. Johnson's authority in his text, but of which he had added a refutation in a note; which note, with some corroborative circumstances, was repeated in _both_ Mr. Croker's editions. There can be no doubt that Shiells misled Johnson, and that Johnson misled Stevens, into the statement which P. T. has copied at some _third or fourth hand_, after it had been twice or thrice refuted.